At the Spot-a-Bee Citizen Science project, the researchers of Cardiff University and the University of Glasgow, UK want to find out what plants, trees and shrubs are important for bees in city and town parks and gardens. People can help survey bee-friendly plants towns, cities and villages! If you spot a bee, use your mobile to take a picture of the plants they’re buzzing around and upload the spot in the Citizen Science app.

Explore the fascinating world of bees with Citizen Science

The Spot-A-Bee app allows you to observe and document any flowers, shrubs, climbers or trees and the bees on them. Additionally, it contains useful information on those plants and the most common bee species in the UK.
As a bonus, the researches behind Spot-A-Bee also want to understand how planting in urban spaces might affect the production of urban honey.

CoronaReport is a citizen science project for documenting the influence of COVID-19 on our lives. Citizens can use the CoronaReport app to share their stories and to better understand how the crisis is changing lives all around the world and provide records about their daily occurrences. These data are helping scientists understand how the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the way people live and work.

A Citizen Science app in times of a global crisis

With the app, participants can create reports on how the corona crisis is affecting them personally, their homes, workplaces and their daily activities. They can then update their stories at any time and create a live journal of their experiences.
The main focus is on how citizens feel and in what kind of mood they are during the crisis. They then may continue with a report on themselves, a place, or an activity, describe how they and their surroundings adapt to the corona crisis, or if people are keeping social distance, and many more.
The contributions will then be processed by the leading scientists of the project and will be an enormous help in finding solutions for dealing with the crisis on a social level.

Do you like spiders? In the SpiderSpotter Citizen Science app, you can share your observations of spiders and their webs to help the research about their adaptation to the environment and contribute to biodiversity monitoring. The app features a range of spider species with and it has an active community of spider enthusiasts and arachnologists. If you love spiders (or at least appreciate them) join this Citizen Science project!

Spiders, their colours and their nets

The increasingly hot summers of recent years are problematic, not just for us humans - especially in the cities. The concrete and the buildings heat up during the day, and radiate the heat back during the night, causing challenges for all living beings. Of course, spiders are also looking for new ways and means to adapt to these new conditions. With the SpiderSpotter app, scientists are trying to figure out how these changes are going to happen.
Lighter cars heat up less than dark ones - that's a well-known fact. However, this also applies to spiders! Scientists, therefore, expect spiders to adapt to the city's hotter temperatures by becoming brighter over time to prevent overheating.
By studying spiders, their colours, and webs, scientists get not only valuable information on how animals adapt to climate change but also how fast climate change is progressing. Also, with a little bit of luck, they may provide us with some answers on how to cool our cities in the future better.

Coastal areas are in constant evolution, climate change will impact where and how humans live. In times of the imminent climate crisis, the coastline will change dramatically, and extreme weather phenomena are already starting to be part of our daily life.

Citizens monitoring weather and water

The Coastal Observer Citizen Science project explores these effects and their impact on the environment and our mood. The Coastal Observer App encourages citizens to become active in monitoring weather and water locally, and will help researchers build a pathway for a sustainable future. By contributing observations about floods, tides storms and water quality, you can help the University of Delaware, US, with their research.

In the Tea Bag Index Citizen Science App, everything is about soil. Various observation categories are ready to participate in, from easy soil classification and testing to the well-known method of burying and weighting teabags to measure the decay rate of plants. Citizen Scientists are welcome to participate worldwide and contribute to improving climate models and soil research.

Drinking tea for the climate

The Tea Bag Index (TBI) collects data on soil observations and in particular on the dynamics of soil decomposition. The degradation of organic matter in the soil is part of the global carbon cycle, which provides information about the biological activity of the soil and is therefore important for climate change. Changes in carbon content in soil can both exacerbate and mitigate climate change.

Pilzfinder is the web-app of the mycology research society of the University of Vienna. In the browser-based project, you can contribute mushroom observations from all across Europe and get feedback from the expert of the Austrian Mycology Society. By joining this Citizen Science project, you can help with the science behind fungi and learn more about the fascinating world of mushrooms.

Street lamps, light signs and illuminated buildings - light at night means security and nicer cities, but has also been shown to have negative effects on people and animals. The more artificial lights, the fewer stars you can see in the night sky. 

Counting stars for science

The "Stjärnförsöket" (the Star Spotting Experiment) project collects contributions about light pollution in Sweden and in partner countries. By pointing a cardboard tube in all cardinal directions, Citizen Scientists record how many stars they see at their current location. By these values, light pollution can be calculated directly in the Citizen Science app. How many stars can you see where you live? Wtih this app you can help scientists measure light pollution by counting stars in the sky!

The project is part of the "Forskar Fredag 2019" initiative, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program.

With the "LitterBug" app by independent Austrian environmental organization GLOBAL 2000, you can sharpen your awareness for the trash left in nature and help cleaning it up. The aim is to support a sustainable clean environment everywhere.

A cleaner environement with Citizen Science

The GLOBAL 2000 DreckSpotz App should not only make our nature a little cleaner, but also ensure that it stays that way in the long term. With the app, people from all over Austria and beyond can help to collect data in order to develop long-term solutions for the waste problem. 

With the CrowdWater Citizen Science app, you can observe rivers and collect hydrological data, including water level, streamflow and soil moisture data, as well as data about the dynamics of temporary streams, plastic pollution and general stream type data.

Better predicting of floods and droughts with Citizen Science

The project does not only look at the possibilities of collecting data but also at the value of this data for hydrological forecasts. The goal is to develop a cheap and easy data collection method that can be used to predict floods and low flow or droughts. The long-term aim of the project is to complement existing gauging station networks, especially in regions with a sparse measurement network, such as in developing countries.

ArtSpots is a community-built art atlas. Through the app people who are interested in various art forms like Street Art, historic or contemporary art, photography, architecture and more can put their art observations on the map and discover art spots in their own city or while travelling. 

A place for art lovers from around the world

Do you love discovering art? With the ArtSpots app, you can share your art discoveries and own artworks with a community full of art lovers - and put your discoveries on the map. Download, register and start spotting - it is as simple as that.

By sharing your findings with others in the ArtSpots app, you help people in your city to explore local creativity or revisit art exhibitions, street art places and graffiti hotspots. You can post a wide range of art forms, from streetart and graffiti to design, from historic artworks to contemporary art or even architecture. You can share also your own creative works and even art hotspots on the map, like museums or the contemporary gallery around the corner.

Each art spot is visible for all users of the app, and you can connect with the local artists and the art community. By working together, art enthusiast from all fields can join collectively and create an extensive collection together. It is even possible to upload timelines of locations to document the development or cover new exhibitions in an art gallery.

ArtSpots, like its successor project "Street Art", is running on the SPOTTERON Citizen Science platform - it will always be free and non-commercial. We respect your digital identity, and we do not monetize your data - because of your online privacy matters. Find out more at www.artspots.net